Tuesday, June 11, 2019

"They stole it from us."

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8 Sivan 5779. For Goldie. May you be comforted. Reb Velvel Pasternak, zt"l. Photo credit: Naava Pasternak Swirsky Oh, man. I ...
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Monday, June 10, 2019

Playing with the Grave Issue of Conversion Annulment

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7 Sivan 5779. It's unusual for a play to keep me from sleeping well. But I was in for one of those patented tossing-and-turning nig...
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Saturday, April 13, 2019

Mental Gymnastics and the Holy Shabbat

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9 Nisan 5779. Years ago, when the boys were young, we played board games or card games on Shabbat. It was a great way to spend the long su...
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Monday, January 21, 2019

I am planting for my children

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Tu B'Shevat 5779. "May your roots go deep while your branches reach toward Shemayim." -- Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak "Jay...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

There But for the Grace of God...

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the Atar family of Netanya, BDE I can't blame. I hurt so much for the loss of the Atar family, of eight precious neshamot, of six...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Returning from Choiceless Times

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(Courtesy, Yael Shahar) What if you could go back in time and fix that one terrible error you made in your youth? Or even if you could...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Mother-Child-Grandmother Circles

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     Like Russian nesting dolls, we hold people inside ourselves.      At first, we are in awe of our ability to share with God the art ...
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